Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, your eyes are upon faithfulness: you have scourged them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them; but they would not receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
2The Lord lives, they say; do they not therefore swear falsely?
Cross References
Leviticus 26:23And if hereupon you⌃ are not corrected, but walk perversely towards me,
2 Chronicles 16:9For the eyes of the Lord look upon all the earth, to strengthen every heart that is perfect toward him. In this you have done foolishly; henceforth there shall be war with you.
Psalms 11:4who have said, We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own: who is Lord of us? 1
Psalms 51:8But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God: I have trusted in the mercy of God for ever, even for evermore. 1
Proverbs 21:29An ungodly man + 21:29 See Alex. ungodly. impudently withstands with his face; but the upright man himself understands his ways.
Proverbs 23:35And you shall say, They struck me, and I was not pained; and they mocked me, and I knew it not: when will it be morning, that I may go and seek those with whom I may go in company?
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 5:2-10
The Universal Corruption to the Age. ( b. c. 608.) 1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it. 2 And though they say, The Lord liveth; surely they swear falsely. 3 O Lord , are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have… Read the whole commentary →